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Systematic Small Farming ; Or, Lessons Of My Farm. By

Robert Scott Barn. (Crosby Lockwood and Co.)—Oat of darkness comes light—sometimes; and it may be that the present depression by which agriculturists are being so sorely tried......

Classified Gents Of Thought. By The Rev. F. B. Proctor,

M.A.; with a Preface by the Rev. II. Wace, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.) This heavy volume is mainly composed of fragments from an im- mense variety of writers, and these......

Skippers And Shellbacks. By James Runciman. (chatto And...

contains between twenty and thirty short stories, reprinted from various periodicals. They are sea-stories, or stories with which the sea and seafaring men have much to do, and......

Jenny Jennett; A Tate Without A Murder. By A. Gallenga.

2 vole. (Chapman and Hall.)—We should have thought that the first novel by a man with Mr. Gallenga's varied experiences would, at any rate, have been rich in incident and......